Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Friday, September 24, 2010

Which is worse

By Dave Anderson:

Via Political Wire, we have an interesting question; which is worse politically, being arrested at one point for murder or working for Goldman Sachs?

"In a television spot posted by Republican candidate Ilario Pantano,
news clips about him were trimmed to omit two key parts of his
biography: That he was once charged with murder and that he had worked
for Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs."

Given that the Republican Party has embraced torture as an authenticator of "Real American toughness (tm)", I'm betting working for Goldman is politically more damaging. 



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  1. Kevin WhitemanSeptember 25, 2010 at 1:41 AM

    He resigned from Goldman Sachs due to his "disgust" at the slimy way they conducted themselves. How could you have missed that fact?
    He killed two terrorists that were attempting to kill him. A military court cleared him of all charges (brought forward by ONE individual who didn't like Lt Pantano, because Pantano fired this guy from a leadership position).
    Yeah, Pantano killed 2 terrorists. Isn't that what Maries in combat are suppose to do?
    Obviously, the entire truth doesn't really matter to you Dem schills.

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